‘It is clearly organised in that it is small groups of people who are the perpetrators
‘It is clearly organised in that it is small groups of people who are the perpetrators. But there does not seem to be any political motivation for the harassment.The spokesman said Lewisham would be bidding for money from the Government’s single regeneration budget to keep the scheme going.Previously, the council has had to resort to injunctions to stop harassment. This has not been enough to get those responsible evicted from council property. With the help of the private detectives this will now be possible. ‘One of the things the private detectives will be doing is building up a dossier of information that our people can refer to, said the council spokesman.Liberty, the civil rights organisation, welcomed the initiative but warned of the dangers of employing independent bodies which were not accountable.”It is good that the council is doing more about racial and sexual harassment, but it is no good fobbing off the responsibility to private firms, said a spokeswoman.Though London councils are increasingly turning to private detectives to track down lawbreakers, many have secretly used tracing agents for some time, for jobs such as credit reference checks.Last month Lambeth openly acknowledged a pounds 500,000 contract for private detectives to catch council tax dodgers – the first London authority to do so.Kensington and Chelsea has also decided to employ a private firm to investigate cases where tenants complain of racial harassment.
But, instead of patrolling the streets, the firm will be based in an office, helping tenants in an advocacy role.. Every now and then I get overtaken by a hippie bus and I think, ‘I wonder where they’re going? Wouldn’t it be nice to get to the end of the bus-route and just keep going: see where the road goes. I suppose this would be the bus driver’s equivalent of jamming. Instead of following a fixed route I’d go my own way, heading off into the distance wearing dark glasses, like Hunter S Thompson.
Maybe pick up a few hitch-hikers and other road people on the way to a festival.
A fireapple red double-decker thrumming down the highway, the speakers playing Steppenwolf’s ‘Born to Be Wild Don’t stop until you get to the ocean. Or even drive it into the water and see what happens.But somehow I don’t think I’d get away with it. Passengers wouldn’t like it and nor would my conductor Stanley. And they’d soon notice at the garage when the bus went missing.Furthermore, I’d have to spend all my time looking out for low bridges That’s probably why most hippies buy single deckers.
It’s one less thing for them to worry about.I wasn’t driving a bus for a living in 1969, but I can imagine the kind of conversations they had, that summer. .’Two and two halves to Marrakesh, please.”Hey hippie – you wanna buy something outa sight?”Hey – later, man.”I can dig it. Who’s the chick?”Hey, we’ve got a caring relationship.’I now pronounce you bonded so long as your relationship continues.’I can really groove on your sense of humour.”I can see the statement you’re making.”I can’t handle any emotional input right now.”I don’t dig people copping feels]”I think I’m gonna crash, man.”I wanna be free.”I’m just getting my thing together.”I’m not really into this type of pressure trip.”Isn’t that far out?”It freaks me out.”It’s beautiful.”It’s psychedelic.”I’d like to hear what your head is saying.”Can we focus on the big pic-ture here.”Cool out.”Don’t get burned like you did last time, man.”Hey – dig.”Just drop in and drop out.”Let’s get it on.”Let me sit on that for a while.”Let’s cop a groove.”Let’s define the parameters of our relationship.”Let’s make love not war.”Let’s split for the beach.”Let’s take a rain check on the orgy.”No cop out.”No sell out.”Peace, brother.”Pretty good stuff you got there, brother.”That really blows my mind, man]”That’s cool.”Oh wow]”There’s a lot of rage in you, man.”This is hard to verbalise, so I’m gonna be right up front.”This is really heavy.”Unbelievable.”We may have a downstream problem here.”We’re just raising our consciousness here.”What’s happening, man?”When are you going to come to terms with that?”You cop for that.”Will you get off my case, man?”You’re incredibly full of anger.”You’re one hip cool dude.”What it is, man, what it is. ”Why don’t you drop acid and get off your incredible power trip.”That’s 1/6d please”Far out.’(Photograph omitted). If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly.
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This Thai eatery has an air on the ground floor of studied functionalism: the tables are clothless and the dressed-down-trendy customers can look a bit formidable. If they are busy, you might find yourself sharing a table, which
bothers some people. They also have an upstairs, with a few more decorative touches and less of a feeling that the whole of Islington is watching you as they walk past. Their food, though, is excellent, and generally speaking the service, though far from emollient, is speedy enough to make this a good place to wolf some speedy carbohydrate-and-chilli before slouching over the road to the Screen on the Green.
Tuk Tuk, 330 Upper St, Islington N1 (071-226 0837)Tomorrow: The Latchmere, Battersea SW11.(Photograph omitted). ‘I wanna move my penis around to the
back side of my ass. I don’t know which
way I want to swing it so I wanna keep itjust in case.’Can that be done? A prank call pervert? No, just The Jerky Boys, a pair of sometimes funny, sometimes irritating wise guys who jerk off innocent New Yorkers listed in the classified columns.
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